I haven't fished yet but surely someone has. :fishin:

Lets get this thing kicked off. Have a good 2011 guys and post em if you have em.

I got my first fish of the season on a copper spook that was in the salties box of blem/unfinished bodies . Not big but first fish of the season on my own plug, pretty sweet way to start off.

Didint crush the barbs cause i didnt think any fish would hit it this early in the season, there crushed now.

......and away we go. 1.5 oz Musso clone darter (plugfest version). fished on an open beach, no current.

Still smiling.

......and away we go. 1.5 oz Musso clone darter (plugfest version). fished on an open beach, no current.

Still smiling.

Nice. you suck. carry on

Nice fish guys I still gotta paint my plugs yet lol:smash:

Nice to see

Hey guys,

More of a lurker here, but I wanted to post this in the thread because whether or not you guys are aware of it you have inspired/helped me a ton (mostly through using the search). I took this fish and 5 others last night on my plug, fish fish on my own plug that I have made start to finish!

Thanks again!

Congrats.......I'll bet you are hooked now, big time.

Nice job, great feeling when you catch on your own.

Hooked isn't the word, haha. I got to stick two more tonight on the same plug. Although earlier in the night I casted away the one darter that I finished into the deep thanks to a knot deep in the spool I could not even say, should have maybe changed the line this year :smash:. I guess I will have to finish the four or so other blanks I made as that plug was meant for montauk!:smash:

......and away we go. 1.5 oz Musso clone darter (plugfest version). fished on an open beach, no current.

Still smiling.

I hate you...and your darters too. The dog's paw in the top right certainly authenticates things though...nice going.

Do New York fish count?
Thanks for the inspiration on this site.
Nothing great but it's a start to the season for me.
Cant seem to get a pic of the plug up but got her on this one
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/plug-building-got-wood/70457-surfster.html

Nice fish, nice plug. Congrats.

Nice Fish! I hope so as mine where NY fish as well, haha.

Thanks, managed a few others today. This one came on a danny.

Finally found a few small legals, all on top

GooGoo plug.....felt good....they wanted nothing to do with my stuff.

I'm too busy to fish these days, so if anyone catches something on one of my Skinnies please post a pic.

Thanks,
W

I'm too busy to fish these days, so if anyone catches something on one of my Skinnies please post a pic.

Thanks,
W
I would be happy to, do you need my shipping address?

Hey guys,

I assume this won't count for a trophy but I wanted to share. The season opened this morning in WI. The first time I have been able to test any of my new plugs with hooks on them, so I went to the river to tune the new baits up. First cast with my new custom "Bluestreak" flaptail and bang
A gentleman that lives across the street from the river came over when I pulled up and was inquiring about the baits,"never seen any like that before", so I explained that I make them, casted out and bang.
Now mind you, no tape, no net, nothing but plieres to the tune baits. He runs across the street and gets a net and brought a tape as well. Laneded, measured but my camera phone locked up
A gentleman walking by took the pic with his phone...no measurement photo, I just wanted to get her back in the water.

43 inches and fat, first cast....the bait runs great, and so did all the others I tested. Damn good morning.

Buy the way the blood is mine, hard to land a nice musky from shore with little equipment

I hope everyone is having a great season opener

MS

If it means anything, I vote for that counts lol :uhuh:

AWESOME fish man! congrats:buds:

Whoa... talk about an incredible way to start the season... you deserve it with all the work you put into your baits this winter...

Congrats... you are batting 1000 in my book!

Cool story. Cool fish. Thanks for posting it.

I'm too busy to fish these days, so if anyone catches something on one of my Skinnies please post a pic.

Thanks,
W

Woody... I did not use your skinny today but it would have caught blues if i used it... I used an eelie repro in herring colors yakking on the South side of the Cape and the blues could not leave it alone... 7-9 pound choppers about 300 yards off the beach while yakking.. water is already warm with the sun the past few days on the shallow sound

did not bring my camera to the cape.. here is the eelie I used to catch this blue filet that I am eating for dinner in a few minutes

Hey guys,

I assume this won't count for a trophy but I wanted to share. The season opened this morning in WI. The first time I have been able to test any of my new plugs with hooks on them, so I went to the river to tune the new baits up. First cast with my new custom "Bluestreak" flaptail and bang
A gentleman that lives across the street from the river came over when I pulled up and was inquiring about the baits,"never seen any like that before", so I explained that I make them, casted out and bang.
Now mind you, no tape, no net, nothing but plieres to the tune baits. He runs across the street and gets a net and brought a tape as well. Laneded, measured but my camera phone locked up
A gentleman walking by took the pic with his phone...no measurement photo, I just wanted to get her back in the water.

43 inches and fat, first cast....the bait runs great, and so did all the others I tested. Damn good morning.

Buy the way the blood is mine, hard to land a nice musky from shore with little equipment

I hope everyone is having a great season opener

MS

look at the head on that thing. Awesome catch. Congrats.

did not bring my camera to the cape.. here is the eelie I used to catch this blue filet that I am eating for dinner in a few minutes

Glad to hear you didn't feed my plug to the vicious savages.

Ted The Greek did however- and one kept it !:smash:

:rotf2:

Oh, the 'yuck' is for the pic of shark bait next to the plug. :uhuh:

MS that fish is amazing!! Great to see and especially cause it's on your own plug!!!

That plug is sweet looking too.

We need a swap thread on this site!!!

Chris that plug is nice man, looks good with teeth marks!

Hope you bleed that bluefish and soaked that filet in some milk.

Awesome stuff guys!!
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Thanks a lot guys:chased:


She tore my left hand up pretty good. Not easy getting a 7" bait completely swallowed, with two 3/0 trebles buried in a soild bone mouth with only a channel locks, in enough time to get her back safely.
She is fine and my hand a small price to pay for a day long rush:jump1:

Good luck with the new season,

MS

Caught on a Blond Terror canal special pencil. Thanks, Chris! Only fish I got last night, but I had another viscious hit on the same plug. This one measured out at 33" and was released.

Hi Guys,
This one fell for a canal special, 34" tried to revive, didn't work :drool: yummy!!!!

Here's a couple from yesterday. My first fish on a spook, nothing great but it's a start. And here's a pretty good fish on a pencil. 42" 26# on the boga.

Here's a couple from yesterday. My first fish on a spook, nothing great but it's a start. And here's a pretty good fish on a pencil. 42" 26# on the boga.

Nice fish! It was good running into you the other night. How'd you do after we left?

This is one of four that fell to a pencil I made.

This fish sure likes bananas

Me and my son with some topwater bass. He got his on a Silent Scott pencil and I got mine on one of my poppers.

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So, see some friends sunday who have a certain large plug of mine. First thing out of there mouths is "you have any more?:confused:" Yeh, Why?? "They swim good, we like them!" My reply is "did you catch" It was like pulling teeth to get an answer which eventually was multiple high 20's to mid 30# for all four of them and not one picture:wall::wall::wall: (story was verified by independent source and I saw the plugs, which looked like they went thru hell!) So do I make them more?
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Here is an interesting shot.

Probably the only guy alive fishing a small pichney darter (clone), and definitely the only guy alive who would be naive enough to use one by day. We all know they don't work by day. Googan for sure?

Here is an interesting shot.

Probably the only guy alive fishing a small pichney darter (clone), and definitely the only guy alive who would be naive enough to use one by day. We all know they don't work by day. Googan for sure?

Must be a Zappa thing... darters during the day and pencils at night

This fish inhaled my ribbed needle, was 35" and 15lbs.

Got a few others on it too, the needle creates so much drag in the water. slow crawling it seemed to be the key, i mean painfully slow.

Caught her on a pavement beach did ya Chris?
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LOL. Don't let G fool you he was fishing one too and I even think it may have been his idea. Plus he even kept my darter. One note the fishing was so completely awesome I think we probably could have used bare hooks and caught fish.

This fish inhaled my ribbed needle, was 35" and 15lbs.

Got a few others on it too, the needle creates so much drag in the water. slow crawling it seemed to be the key, i mean painfully slow.

The ribbed Needle... for her fishing pleasure.... she looks like a happy striper with the ribbed needle taken like deep throat...

So is is like Minnesota Fats... slow and slower....?


C

The fog in Buzzards' Bay and around the Pigs has been so thick lately, it is hard to get out. I took my shakedown trip to the Pigs and caught 8 bass. Most were keepers but nothing to brag about. The whole reef was loaded with birds and bass swimming right along side the boat while I was trolling.

Caught her on a pavement beach did ya Chris?
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:rotf2: caught her on the rocks, wasnt safe to take a pic cause of the surf so laid her down the road, nice thing about fishing in semi urban areas.

Here are some small bass from the NH rocks on custom wood.
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On one of my lipless rat-L-trap type plugs.

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A bass on a surf howdy clone PlugFest swap plug from Lower. This plug was a joy to cast and "swam" great. (Nice work man)

One of many on one of my white heavy micro canal pencils, fished sub surface.

Nice fish, Paul

Hope you get a hernia.

Great fish Paul!

JMAC...glad you made a few of those and threw it! It really is a great plug...wish I could claim it as something I came up with!!! I've done really well on it this season as well.

Nice fish Paul! Where in the heck did you catch it :rotf2:!

Made one cast and partial drift with this 7.5" pichney stlye jointed eely and hooked right up...figured I was in for some fun and it turned out to be my only fish of the night. Still, its likely bigger than anything Numbskull has caught this year thus its a victory (albeit small) for me on mulitple fronts.

Excellent
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Got several similiar to this one yesterday on Big D's sand eel plug from my yak on the "outermost part" of the Cape

steady pick all day long... could not reach them from shore so the yak was launched... 78 degrees while fishing yesterday afternoon vs 90 in Boston

Great job chris!!!!

Nice fish guys....The stripers are definitely biting better than the muskies. the lakes don't even have defined weed edges yet...cold spring.

Nice work Chris!

MS

Hi all,

Epic day with Buzz and striperman36!!! Top water action, nothing like it..... Picture says it all!

Cheers,
O.D.M.

Hi all,

Epic day with Buzz and striperman36!!! Top water action, nothing like it..... Picture says it all!

Cheers,
O.D.M.

It's was INSANE!!!

I don't have any picture but I caught some small bass over the weekend on Numbskulls parrot darter at Cuttyhunk

great plug!


THANKS George

Crappy picture of a fat guy in a wetsuit with a low 20 bass (the fish is rotated) on a sweet little 1.5oz musso darter clone. This is a smaller darter than the little ones I gave out at plugfest. Runs deeper. I like the plugfest versions better (a white one has been my best plug this year), but this smaller one looks like it has lots of potential as well.

looks like you had luck last nite. Neat little plug

Great thread

Those socks don't scare the fish?
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Crappy picture of a fat guy in a wetsuit with a low 20 bass (the fish is rotated) on a sweet little 1.5oz musso darter clone. This is a smaller darter than the little ones I gave out at plugfest. Runs deeper. I like the plugfest versions better (a white one has been my best plug this year), but this smaller one looks like it has lots of potential as well.



Numby, no dog????

22 lbs. on Big Fish Larry small 1 ounce PP .. Boat fish count ?

I <3 that plug. does my freakshow fish count then on one of larry's:confused:

Got this one on one of my pencils.

Nice fish, but is that a foot coming out of your butt?

Nice fish, but is that a foot coming out of your butt?

Ive often been accused of having my foot up my a$$ but no it's my stringer.

It's been slow and I haven't been out much, but here is a 30" Bluefish from the NH rocks on a surf howdy by Lower. (best fight of the year)
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Also had a couple near keeper bass on one of my mackerel sliders.

Haven't seen a post in quite some time.... This striper liked the pencil, as Tysdad would say I found one dumb enough....

Here's a fish that took a jigman spook clone today. Great plug.

Here's a fish that took a jigman spook clone today. Great plug.

Nice fish. Good to see you're out tossing plugs again! Hope you're healing well.

Numby pulls up lame just in time for the fall run??? Curious...very curious indeed!:uhuh:

Here's a fish that took a jigman spook clone today. Great plug.

Wicked cool George...did you fight it standing on one leg?

Yeah........... but I was on my knees praying when it hit.

Good stuff guys. I like flicking through this thread.

Here's one on a goo-goo man copy. I had to copy it as I was afraid to lose the only one I had! He gave it to me at plugfest and I just knew it was going to work.

I was fishing in an area where fish were around but were locked jaw. It was almost frustrating watching them swim by. We threw everything at them including plastic. I tied this swimmer on as it was next in the rotation and on the first cast finally got one to turn. I was pretty excited. Great plug Glen!

JMAC...glad to see your still throwing the howdy. Like I said before not my design...but a great plug.

Yeah........... but I was on my knees praying when it hit.

LOL that was funny.:rotf2:


nice fish Kris. U in the little tin boat?

I WAS in the little boat...picture is from a little while back :).

from a while back when the canal was hot one of my yellow spooks
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After seeing all your work at Plugfest Bill really got into the scaling effect that he saw you guys doing so he made this 9 inch 2 1/2 oz green needle. It has gold scaling effect, his signature red throat and a cream belly. Casts really great. Floats and makes a great V wake. I picked up this 31 incher Sunday night and a 28 incher Monday morning. As you may know bass have been tough to come by on the Vineyard lately (also got a 31.99 incher -just under Derby size-on one of his black darters as well 2 weeks ago). His plugs keep producing, still looking for a really big fish on one. Maybe in RI during the MS Surf Challenge next weekend or Tri-State the following weekend. He is working on a few more black darters now, still going strong. He also does micro glitter since he saw that at Plugfest.
This "Hospitality Bass" became filets for the friend who provided the weekend room for me this weekend and 2 weekends ago.
Bill
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God Bless Stan Gibbs. A clone of his 2.75 oz pencil. A "must have" plug. I was the guy with the camera, not the rod.

Cool. Hooray Art.

Awesome pic George!
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The O.d. Mike Pencil.

Mike gave me this pencil during the summer.
First day with it , third cast had my first fish of the morning on it. Had several other smaller fish on it that morning and lost one bigger fish when one of the vmc's straightened. :smash:

There are some more pictures out there of fish I caught on it , but I have no idea where they are.

Finished up the season on a high note with this one. Some kind soul took pity on me and brought me along for the ride last week. Absolutely perfect day, great company, and a bunch of nice fish.

This one took a 1.75 oz pollack pencil I made back in the spirng and had pretty much given up on before the trip.

Fish was incredibly fat and fought like hell with the light gear we were using. It pulled the chatillion down below the 30# mark before we revived her, then turned her loose.

the only way to catch. two words: TOP WATAH. nice fish